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• Famous Samurai Swords
  This page is a partial list of the most famous samurai swords, ordered by name of the owner. Most of those listed belonged to several owners during t ...Sukezane, by the [[Kamakura period]] swordsmith Sukezane. Previously held by the [[Kii Tokugawa clan]]; now held at [[Tokyo National Museum]]. [[Nationa
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• Invasion of Ryukyu
  ...lties, as Ryûkyû had little military strength, and its people were ordered by their king to surrender and to spare themselves any bloodshed. ...tribute|tributary]] relationship with China, until it was formally annexed by Japan in 1879 as [[Okinawa Prefecture]].
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• Noh
  ...2014.</ref> Developed in the early 15th century, it came to be patronized by the samurai class, and especially the [[Muromachi shogunate|Muromachi]] and ...sent in the world (setting/plot) of the play, they are meant to be ignored by the audience, though they make little overt effort to hide themselves.
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• Toyotomi Hideyoshi
  ...time he is married to a woman known as [[Nene]] (or O-ne); his mother had by now remarried, and through her marriage to a certain [[Chikuami]] produced ...at the local Kunimoto firearms factory (established some years previously by the Asai and Asakura). With Nobunaga engaged in almost constant warfare, Hi
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• Tokugawa Ieyasu
  ...], Motonobu was married to a daughter of [[Sekiguchi Chikanaga]] (aka Sena Yoshihiro), a vassal of the Imagawa who was a hostage alongside him. She later came t ...stance, Motoyasu had brought in much-needed supplies to a beleaguered fort by tricking the bulk of the attackers into marching away to face a non-existen
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